[Serusers] posting from nonmembeers
Arnd Vehling
av at nethead.de
Thu Jan 29 18:35:57 CET 2004
Jim Burwell wrote:
> It's a good idea in general to prohibit outside posts. But this won't
> stop the bogus worm-containing messages being sent out with fake "From:
> " addresses which are addressed as coming from the list, you, or even
> me. These worms gather email addresses from received emails, inboxes,
> etc, etc, and use valid "From: " addresses to masquerade as anyone they
> want.
True, but some worms use the e-mail address list of the victim and use
those addresses as "from-address". Therefore keeping unsubscribed users
out of the list would still help keeping the "trash" level of the list
low.
-- Arnd
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